Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes

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If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

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Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

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That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

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When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

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You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

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Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

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Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

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Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

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Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark...

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Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

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If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late....

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The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

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We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

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When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

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Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

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When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

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Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

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This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

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There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

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An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

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The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

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One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

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What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music— reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

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A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

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An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

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If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

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I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.

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And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

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Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart." "So what's vodka for?" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad

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Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villany. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves. No matter what the circumstances of life are, there are no justifications and there never will be any. But people look for justifications and they find them. All people have been taught to do that, and they've all proved diligent pupils.

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